Arrington XRP Capital

Basics

• Founded in 2017
• Arrington XRP Capital is a digital asset management firm launched by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. The $100 million fund chose Ripple (XRP) as its base denomination.

Investments

• Do Kwon; gave a 'special shoutout for backing literally everything I've done in my career (without even a pitch)'
• From Messari (9-3-2020):

aelf, Ampleforth, Blockstack, Bloom, Celer, Cortex, Fantom, Nexo, NKN, NuCypher, Oasis Labs, Origo Network, Perlin, Propy, TON, Thunder Token and XRP.

• Acala. From CoinDesk (27-8-2020):

"Acala closed a $7 million simple agreement for future tokens (SAFT) led by Pantera Capital. Other investors in the funding round include 1confirmation, Arrington XRP Capital, ParaFi Capital, Coinfund, Spartan Capital and others."

• Aergo. Is mentioned as a backer of Aergo (6-8-2020).
• Alice; one of the seed investors (13-5-2021).
• Anchor; Do Kwon mentioned them as part of a $20M raise, calling the participants the 'Anchor whales' (16-3-2021)
• APY.Finance. Participated in a $3.6M seed funding round for APY.Finance (26-9-2020).
• Bella Protocol. From CoinDesk (7-9-2020):

"Bella Protocol (BEL) recently raised $4M in a seed funding round led by Arrington XRP Capital. 

• BitClout; from (19-3-2021) Michael Arrington's own twitter: "The #bitclout FUD is just that, FUD. @arringtonXRPcap are coin-holders, other holders are tier 1 investors/people too. The service is fully launching very soon. The founders are choosing to remain pseudonymous for now. But we and other holders are DIAMOND HANDS on this one."

• Cred. Is a backer (29-5-2019) of Cred, which it also has a partnership with.
• Carry. Is a backer (11-6-2020) of Carry.
• Mirror Protocol; invested through Terra (8-12-2020).
• Nexus Protocol; mentioned on their website as an investor (4-11-2021).
• Pocket Network; part of the $10m raise (6-1-2022).
• Secret Network; part of a $11.5M token sale (4-5-2021).
• Skale. Is on the list of supporters of Skale (31-7-2020).
• Terra. Invested in Terra and all its other ventures (9-3-2020). Was part of the $150M ecosystem fund for Terra as well (16-7-2021).
• Vega Protocol; part of the $2.2M raise (18-3-2021).

Team, partners

• Has 3 employees (9-3-2020)
• Michael Arrington; General Partner at CF.

Partners

• Is a member of DeFi Nation, created by Mosendo (24-5-2020).
• Mentioned (13-7-2021) as part of the Investor Network of Asia DeFi Network (ADN).